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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains , pages of information and , images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them. The chief projects on which he worked, or which owe their existence to his initiative, were works on the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers, located in the modern state of Tamil Nadu, and later works on the Godavari and Kistna rivers, located in the modern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Cotton established a model of Indian hydraulic engineering which continued to be followed in developing the resources of other Indian rivers. On several minor rivers in south-eastern India, including the Penner, Cotteliar, Paler, Cheyyar, and Vellar, anicuts and subsidiary works were subsequently constructed, which contributed to increasing the agricultural productivity of the country.

The success of Cotton's hydraulic schemes inspired more ambitious and challenging projects, such as the construction of a high dam along the Periyar River in the mountains of the modern state of Kerala which was completed in He put his efforts into devising new methods for improving English agriculture. The text of this web site is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply.

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